Arunachalam Muruganantham
Inventor and social entrepreneur from Coimbatore, India
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Arunachalam Muruganantham also known as Padman is a social entrepreneur from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. He is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine and is credited for innovating grassroots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India. His mini-machines, which can manufacture sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost of commercial pads, have been installed in 23 of the 28 states of India in rural areas. He is currently planning to expand the production of these machines to 106 nations. The movie Period. End of Sentence. won the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the year 2018. The 2018 Hindi film Pad Man was made on his invention, where he was portrayed by Akshay Kumar.
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- Padma Shri in Social work
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- When was Arunachalam Muruganantham born?
- Arunachalam Muruganantham was born on 12 October 1962 in Coimbatore.
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- Wikipedia (English): Arunachalam Muruganantham · CC BY-SA 4.0
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